Showing posts with label journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journal. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

The wheel is round, it has no end.

When a fresh new person goes into a new employment area they are mentored. While that new person intermingles with people with more experience, various skills and knowledge basis levels, they are being directed into keeping that business on track within the businesses practices according to that business's charter. The new person has to allow themselves to be mentally probed, opened up, redirected and re-trained in order for that business to accept both themselves and their skills within that business inclusivly protective walls.  This said- what is experienced by the new person, that new person will do back to the business.   Each are looking for a level of safety, survival, security and longevity.

 There are many unknowns and "gray areas" for all to consider. As the new person settles in and works towards being accepted, many things implode on their comfort zones. Mentors provide a bridging gap between the business processes and internal social gap and the new employees knowledge base. When a gaping void between two benchmarks is discovered by the newer employee they become aware of yet another grey area to bring to the Mentors attention. As this discovery process is happening the new employee is shown how things are actually are, compared to how things should be. Seen with a different perspective the Mentor explains what the company is going to do about the tangible and intangible aspects that have created that said void. Does the company have policies, how are these policies implemented? Who needs to know about it? Mentors have a place in training the new employee through the processes.

Voids need to be dealt with not covered up.



 Negative vortex's on the other hand are like a whirl wind. Vortexes [positive or negative] disturb the peace and progress. Usually there are other smaller vortex trailing around and behind a central Vortex. Each feeding off the other until the course of events has travelled its path.  Nothing is ever the same again. As the destructive negative vortex gets nearer the voids around them get dragged into the negative of that vortex.  The solid foundations and walls of any business needs to have been strengthen through reinforcement, not temporally shored up [propped up].Using the example of the Global Financial Crash [GFC] of 2008 as an example of an external negative vortex many business's that did not have the foresight or resources suffered greatly. While some were never heard of again others had the forethought, or ability, to have changed their focus, to  fix up weak areas, while staying afloat managed to stay in business. While some business later sold up others took the hits and stood the test of time For instance Marketing America had $80 million dollars in their bank mid October 2011.  This company was only 15 years old at that point. Why was what Marketing America working causing a large growth rate during the years from the GFC to then? One answer is that the motto of the Marketing Australia motto is "Built on Product. Powered by People". Through mentoring processes Marketing America taught it's values and ethics. As a 'family' of people moving forward sharing a common vision Marketing America strength in it's strategies did not allow the GFC negative vortex to brake up the business. In this example Marketing America is seen as a positive vortex. As a result many people have benefited.  Literally a negative vortex hit a positive vortex.

New employees or members, questions are a form of constant evaluations regarding the process, strengths and weakness of company policy and methodology. Therefore there is the likelihood that a newer employee, who sees things through a different perspective, may see the voids or approaching negative vortex more clearly will be greater. This newer perspective is what the mentor needs to nurture - or it might get squished and not flourish. A negative result is that the business falters and does not grow.

 Any business that does not take note of the voids, putting into place methods to deal with the said void  through an ongoing complete needs analysis and evaluation  is heading for trouble.  The new persons ability to communicate with others, particularly the mentor, to brainstorm what is actually happening as a team effort, to acknowledge and take the steps of what needs to be done in combination to how the business charter repairs the gray area is very valuable to the business. The mentor should respect, nurture and develop this leadership potential 

The mentor not only offers protection with knowledge but boundaries and support to that new employee. The flip side of this support being given is that the Mentor receives loyalty, understanding and full honest communication as this two way path is earned.  Understand these two things.

  • The mentor and the new employee will develop a bond. 
  • All training, understanding, knowledge etc is energy. This energy does not flow between one and another in a circular motion.  Unlike a vortex the Mentor will not suck the employee into their forcefield and turn the emplyee into their clone.  Instead the energy flows in a figure of eight pathway crossing over at two polar points. At these polar points other pathways of energy exchange are occurring.  At the end of the mentoring both the employee and the mentor have shared and grown. They will still be individuals with ideas, brain patterns and methods of doing something to achieve the same outcome slightly varying. A new er employee may be mentored by either of the above and the company strengthens and benefits. 

Mentors are there to reinforce those with less knowledge, on the wise choices to make. When the newer employees unwise choices result, or short cuts skipped, have effectively back fired and proceed then to fall apart, then  the mentor has already a network set up to halt the total onset of destruction. The mentor incorporates the company charter, the laws of the land, ethics, cultural awareness and a sense of morals into the redevelopment of the employee and their actions while using the mentors own skills, knowledge and networks to teach the employee the five basic things. These being -who, what, when, where and how things are meant to be, how they should be.

 The circle is round and knows no end. New trends will open new voids. New employees or members mean new looks into the procedures. Among other things the introduction of time management and technological advancements are moving and changing the business culture along with them. Through the reinvestment of time, energy and sound knowledge,  the employee and their skills do not disappear thus the business's growth will continue to flourish.

The business will have developed methods to rise and meet other new challenges. The business of mentoring does not reinvent the wheel.  However mentoring allows a team effort to have the wheel ready [in storage and checked out when necessary] for a flat tyre not to turn into a major disaster.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Made a mistake have you?

A critical review is not earning a grade but doing looking backwards in order to do something better next time. Often a critical review is mistaken for when one person is critical of what people did or did not do or when a person has done something wrong.

Picture found somewhere
on the web!
The critical review is the act or instance of evaluation or appraising the gathering of feedback is used to make the next situation run more smoothly.  All the stake holders go over the information gathered re the event, brake the event into segments. Each segment has an action.  The actions are reviewed. Each action has an outcome - these too have a review. Actions or non-actions are taken into consideration.

The beauty of recording events at the time they occur is that everyone [all stakeholders] can make adjustments for future guide lines with regard to possible scenarios. Things that are recorded tend to be remembered as fresh incidents during the information gathering process.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Opening your Google Site to work on it.

I am now celebrating.

Google is Wonderful

But Who changed my search engine to Bing?.  I had become so used to having a Google search engine that I had not even thought of this basic thing to check off.  Then I went and found  How to create a new Site on YouTube.

There is a really interesting pause button that was used as I paused the button and checked out on a new tab what the Radford Tutorial guy was telling me to do.

This then took a lot of going back and forward practice and note taking.  I now have the instructions. When I show Will on Monday I will not fee stupid at the key boards. That way the site he needs operating fully will be ready.

The next steps within the project will be able to be completed as a .com site name can go on the paperwork.





Triggering subliminal memories.

Near 6 hours after first sitting down to this computer what have I done.


  • Missed a personal appointment ...yes.
  • Listened to the rain begin to pour down and considered not mowing the jungle out the back [again].
  • I have finally worked out how to get into my Google Site list.
    • Through this the blogger sites and other things I thought I had lost access too.
Google search was wonderful. The link that was provided on You Tube helped me out. This link was "All about how to create a simple web page" but it triggered a subliminal memory that released a memory.  That is the "Penny" dropped.



Saturday, October 8, 2011

Ha ha friend




















Do it! Yesturday.

You are interested in something and want to get started?

Out of shear frustration I have begun this Journal. I know I have been told that I should have started the entries years ago. I also know that I have wanted to start them as posts years ago.

However [ a reason and not an excuse here] is that every blog should have its own focus is something that I adhere too.  Then I have sat down and given each pressing new focus to another blog. Never getting directly around to this one.

My excuse.... I will do it tomorrow / next time... or what ever.

Have fun with my journals.  Some posts will be reflective others current.  Many will be hyper-linked to whatever I am doing now.

Indexing the paper craft page

Creating pages full of indexing cross site information is not fun.  However as I did not know what I was doing when I first started Blogging a few years ago I thought I had it worked out.

Somewhere I had read that each focus desired another blog.  Currently I have a few. each now has a different focus. But how do I bring them all together so that the things I do, see, think and learn about are integrated with each other.

I have often clicked to posts that are no longer there.  This is most frustrating as when I think I can get the readers to become better informed by adding back-links into other blogs'.

The one page I have semi- done today is the paper craft page in Together we have...had fun with craft.




1st post!

Today I was thinking about how far I have travelled along this Blogging path.  And how far I really had to go.

Once again these thoughts came during a really frustrating time.  Something I will probably look back too in a few months and say.." that was easy". !!

Know the feeling.

Today's frustrations were about the signing up of a Google site.  I can sign up but what are the steps the instructions have left out about becoming a owner of that site? Apparently I have missed some basic instruction step somewhere.

I have worked out

  • how to open the site.
  • how to add pages, colors and fonts.
  • Add pictures and hyper-link around the place.
With Blogger I can pay for the site yearly. I think the Google sites are a simple $33.00 per year payable to Google.  But where and when does any Google site get paid for??  That is my frustration.

So I then did something else with my computer time.